CoCoCrew Episode 34

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:40)
  • CoCoFEST! is only 1 months away!
  • Tandy Assembly is roughly 7 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:03:45)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and tunein.
  • Member of The Throwback Network
  • Listed on the Game-by-Game Podcast Information Hub
  • Show audio hosted at Cyber Ears
  • Email addresses
    
    
    • show@cococrew.org
    • podcast@cococrew.org
    • feedback@cococrew.org
    
    
    • john@cococrew.org
    • neil@cococrew.org
    • mike@cococrew.org
    • boisy@cococrew.org
    
    
  • RetroChallenge
    
    
  • Call for Papers for the 27th Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!
    
    
  • The 27th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 21-22, 2018
  • VCF Southeast 2018: April 21-22, 2018
  • Pittsburgh Retro Gaming Expo: April 21-22, 2018
  • 4º Encontro Clube Color Rio: April 28, 2018
  • VCF East 2018: May 18-20, 2018
  • CORGS-CON 2018: June 2, 2018
  • KansasFest 2018: July 16-22, 2018
• News (0:16:13)
  
  • Alert 0, New 10 Liner Game (Jim Gerrie)
  • Nintendo Family Computer & The TRS-80 Color Computer (databits @ YouTube)
  • CoCo Dev Setup (Lee Perkins)
  • Pig - 2018 Update (Davy Mitchell)
  • Air Raid by Kenneth Reighard (Jim Gerrie)
  • I want to thank all those who helped me in anyway with my "Minecamp" game. (Diego Barizo)
  • MAZERACE New 10 Liner Basic Game (Jim Gerrie)
  • CoCo-Flash can work on a Dragon/Tano (Pere Serrat)
  • Professional RF Coax To HDMI DVI Demodulator TV Tuner For NTSC (Ambery)
  • Return To Rom Dev. Video #01 - Intro and Gameplay (Share Squid / Jon Day)
  • The retro gaming industry could be killing video game preservation (Damien McFerran @ Eurogamer)
  • QuickBASIC Lives On with QB64 (Tom Nardi @ Hackaday)
  • Relive Radio Shack’s Glory Days by Getting Goofy (Dan Maloney @ Hackaday)
  • Retrocomputing for the Forgotten (Al Williams @ Hackaday)
  • I posted a speedup for Microcolor BASIC in the Yahoo group messages. (James Diffendaffer)
  • I am now able to build Temple of ROM from source! (Rick Adams)
  • Darren's Maze Race Mod (Jim Gerrie)
  • BASIC09 I-code: what it is, and why (James Jones)
  • Qodem is a public domain re-implementation of the DOS-era Qmodem serial communications package, updated for modern systems. (The Qodem Homepage)
  • Math for Game Programmers: Building a Better Jump (J. Kyle Pittman)
  • FPGA-based Commodore 64 ‘Ultimate 64’ is now under production (Paulo Garcia)
  • L-Star – Software-Defined 6502 Computer (Jac Goudsmit)
  • All tooling and processes in place for the creation of board frames and stencils. (Mark Marlette)
  • Decided to whip up a small 2 slot Coco cart port extender for project work. (Jim Brain)
  • After some experimentation with the Deluxe RS232 Pak and some updated DW3 read/write routines to use the RS232 Pak... (David Ladd)
  • SGEDIT just got a revamp (v2) thanks to David Mitchell (Simon Jonassen)
  • One year ago...Sub-Etha Software announced the Sir Sound CoCo Sound Card, today referred to as SirSound... (Allen Huffman)
• Feedback (1:04:21)
  • "I enjoyed the spoof-mercial on "The Six Million Dollar Man". very much. I used to love watching that show. I also enjoyed hearing Neil Blanchard reminisce about the days when BBSs were in fashion. Why is Boisy Pitre given only a corner for talking about OS-9?" -- Tony Cappellini
  • Random comments about NitrOS-9 and networking... -- CoCoTALK! Episode 49
• Host discussion -- What does CoCoFEST! mean to each of us? (1:09:58)
• Roundtable discussion -- CoCoFEST! (1:21:59)
• Tech Segment -- A/V mod for CoCo1 (2:04:56)
• OS-9 Corner -- The Kernel (2:27:09)
• Neil's Corner -- Real floppy drives needed? (2:33:05)
• Parting Thoughts (2:40:14)

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